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Anamorphic Prism Pair, good for 635nm?






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IR optics will work just fine for red, just possibly have slightly higher losses. It depends on the coatings.
 
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How about one of these designed for 808nm being used at 1064nm? Any idea if the losses might be worse in that direction for a longer wavelength?
 
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If they're like those prism pairs from the B+W DPSS blues, they seemed pretty lossy, especially going through two of them.

You could also check out the prism pair from LaserShowParts, or the equivalent from eBay like these; they're supposedly coated for broadband. The overall price is about the same.
 
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Thanks, appreciate the link, hadn't known about them before.

I have a larger pair of anamorphic lenses here and finding that shooting a less than fully collumated beam into them doesn't work out to make a nice round spot when putting a pcx lens on the other side of the prisms to collimate it, doing so makes a very oblong output, completely reversing what I was trying to use the prisms for, making it worse than it was to begin with :p

Edit: Of course, if I collimate the beam first prior to the prisms, it works correctly. I was hoping I could shoot a uncollimated beam through it, if close enough to the diode, which I can, but then when trying to collimate the beam after it leaves the prisms it won't do so, all distorted.
 
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